This particular copy was distributed by "Austin Computer Systems" (with a newly purchased PC) on a 5.25" floppy disk.

                    USE OF McAFEE ASSOCIATES PROGRAMS

                    USE OF McAFEE ASSOCIATES PROGRAMS

     The  McAfee Associates VIRUSCAN series is distributed as shareware
for  home  use,  but  must  be licensed  for  use  within  a  business,
corporation,  or organization.  This includes educational  institutions
and  government  agencies.   If you have or suspect  a  computer  virus
infection, you are allowed to use the software for five(5) days free of
charge  to  isolate and remove the computer virus or  suspect  computer
virus.  We will provide you with assistance if requested.
     If you are a shareware distributor you may distribute all software
listed  below  in the registration form as long as you  contact  McAfee
Associates   for  permission  first.   You  must  distribute  all   the
files  intact  and in unmodified form (duplicate files may be  removed)
and  may not charge more than a reasonable disk copying fee.  You  must
obtain updates from our BBS at the number below.
     If  you are a System Operator and run a publically-accessable  BBS
for  which there is no usage fee then you may use the software free  of
charge on your BBS system--that's our way of saying thanks.

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SYNOPSIS

     VIRUSCAN (SCAN) is a virus detection and identification
program for the IBM PC and compatible computers.  VIRUSCAN will
search a PC for known computer viruses in memory, the boot sector,
the partition table, and the files of a PC and its disks.  VIRUSCAN
can also detect the presence of unknown viruses.
     SCAN works by searching the system for instruction sequences
unique to each computer virus, and then reporting their presence
when found.  This method works for viruses that VIRUSCAN recognizes, and 
for many unknown viruses as well.  SCAN can also detect unknown viruses 
in files and boot sector by appending validation (CRC) codes to .COM 
and .EXE files and then checking the files against their codes for changes, 
warning that an infection may have occurred if the file has been modified 
in any way.  An enhanced validation mode is available that will save and 
check information that can be used by CLEAN-UP to restore infected files, 
the partition table, or the boot sector of a disk in case of an infection 
by an unknown virus.  SCAN can also check for new viruses from a user-
supplied list of virus search strings.
     VIRUSCAN runs on any PC with 320Kb and DOS version 2.00 or above.

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